• Images [of Death] Across Cultures and Time
• Roman sources on suicide
• Kamikaze suicide manual
• Rational Fanatics
• What Makes Suicide Bombers Tick?
• The Tibetan Book of Death
• Roman Catholic Ritual
• Gregorian Chant: In Paradisum
• Jewish Ritual
• Muslim Ritual
• Episcopal Ritual
• Interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death Without Weeping, an anthropological study of a 'baby die-off' in Brazil (see also the streaming video below)
• New Internationalist Online Magazine Issue devoted to Nancy Scheper-Hughes Death Without Weeping
• W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen"
• Baudelaire, "The Carcass"
• Albert Camus, selections from The Stranger
• Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Death"
• Emily Dickinson, "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
• Emily Dickinson, "Twas just this time last year I died"
• Anne Finch, "To Death"
• Andreas Gryphius, "Human Misery"
• Nazim Hikmet, "My funeral"
• Homer, "The Gathering of Shades" from The Odyssey
• A.E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young"
• Victor Hugo, "Mors"
• David Lloyd, "Chuckles Bites the Dust" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Toni Morrison, "The Dead of September 11"
• Dorothy Parker, "Resume"
• Plato, Death of Socrates
• Luc Sante, "The Unknown Soldier"
• Shakespeare, "To be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet
• Shakespeare, death of King John, from The Life and Death of King John
• Alfonsina Storni, "I am going to sleep"
• Leo Tolstoy, "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
• Leo Tolstoy, "Three Deaths"
• E.B. White, "Last Day", from Charlotte's Web

  Death Quotes

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Web Links

• The Death Clock
• Suicide Bombers
• Pablo Picasso's The Tragedy
• Interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death Without Weeping, an anthropological study of a 'baby die-off' in Brazil
• New Internationalist Online Magazine Issue devoted to Nancy Scheper-Hughes' Death Without Weeping
• Albert Camus The Stranger
• Black Death
• books of bones store
• Chief Seattle undocumented
• Conversation with Nancy Scheper-Hughes, p. 4 of 6
• DAILY LIFE IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL New Internationalist magazine 254
• Death & Society
• Death and Burial
• Death Links
• Death Monstrous
• Death of Marat
• Deathlore Annwfn-The Otherworld
• displaying the dead
• End of Life NPR
• Exploring Plato's Dialogues The Phaedo (Jowett)
• Graverobbing
• Hamlet on the Ramparts
• Illustrated Pericles Funeral Oration
• Infant Mortality in Brazil - The FACTS
• Memento Mori, 1
• Menu - Suicide in a cultural-historical perspective
• Mortality in Cultural Context
• Plath, Sylvia Two Views of a Cadaver Room
• Readings
• Sociology of Death
• Suicide Bombing as a Problem in Asymmetric Warfare, April 19, 2002
• Suicide
• The Death Clock
• The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
• The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
• Useful resources for death
• War Requiem Text
• World Cultures

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Sound Files

• Walter Cronkite reports the assassination of John F. Kennedy
• Luc Sante reads "The Unknown Soldier"
• Mexico's Day of the Dead
• Gregorian Chant, "In Paridisum"
• Interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Images

• Ludwig von Beethoven's death mask
• Reusable coffin used in funerals like that of Mozart

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Maps

Maps to be listed here...

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